The Guest House

The Guest House in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is a senior living community that offers several care options, including assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing, long-term care, short-term rehabilitation, home care, and hospice care, and you'll find they have both studio and semi-private rooms, and sometimes folks share a room with a companion, so there are choices about where to live. The facility has certified beds for up to 104 residents and usually has about 92 people living there each day, and healthcare staff focus on personalized care using a person-centered approach, aiming to support people's physical, spiritual, and emotional health, including specialized services for folks with Alzheimer's or other memory concerns. Residents get access to healthcare services and high acuity care, and there's a team of professionals taking care of people's needs, with therapy available, such as physical, speech, and occupational therapies for those recovering from surgery, injury, or illness. The Guest House has amenities and activities like games-Wheel of Fortune is a popular one-and designs its services to help residents feel comfortable, safe, and engaged, plus there are support tools like high contrast website display and information forms for accessibility. Some inspection reports have mentioned deficiencies, such as not always creating full care plans or gaps in resident assessment, and these have been marked as severity level D and E, which means they could potentially cause more than minimal harm or have serious consequences, so it's something people should be aware of. Nurse staff turnover here is higher than the state average, and there are fewer nursing hours per resident compared to other places nearby, but the management has stayed steady under Plantation Management Company since 2002 with Kimberly Delatte and Scott Quirk in leadership, and the ownership is split between Cynthia Quirk and Gene Quirk. Along with nursing care, there are support services for rehabilitation, long-term and short-term stays, and a focus on activities and amenities meant to keep folks as comfortable and cared-for as possible, with photo galleries and information online if you want to see more about what life there looks like.